the new Spock just showed more of his human side, why should he have to be so dull & logical when he is after all, half human?

I sure enjoyed it more than any of the previous Shatner & Piccard snoozers, granted i'm not emotionally tied to the old casts like a lot of others, but i thought it did a good job of keeping most of the key elements of the old mythos & expanding upon the main characters pasts.

To each their own i guess.

Hell, I've seen the light!

Let's make him half gay as well, and we can watch him going down on Kirk instead of them playing 3 dimensional chess!

I wonder if Spock is going to be acting like a sex-crazed hormone-imbalanced teenager again...

They may have suckered me out of my money the first time, but it'll never happen again. Absolutely the WORST abortion of a "re-imagining" of an iconic sci-fi franchise in cinematic history. I almost wept at its awfulness.

I bet Gene Roddenberry was spinning in his grave fast enough to spawn a rogue black hole.

I would think since he's half human, that the human side would be harder to control as a young man/Vulcan.

That, to me, would be an interesting aspect of the growth and maturing of Spock to explore in these movies.

I hope they continue with the storyline of giving command of the Enterprise, the flagship of Star Fleet, to a 23 year old Star Fleet Academy graduate as well...Kind of like the USN giving command of a $10 billion aircraft carrier to some 20 year old kid who they had just signed up at the recruitment office...

I wonder if Spock is going to be acting like a sex-crazed hormone-imbalanced teenager again...

They may have suckered me out of my money the first time, but it'll never happen again. Absolutely the WORST abortion of a "re-imagining" of an iconic sci-fi franchise in cinematic history. I almost wept at its awfulness.

I bet Gene Roddenberry was spinning in his grave fast enough to spawn a rogue black hole.

I guess your in the minority then. It was by faaar, the highest grossing Star Trek film ever and absolutely revitalized a tired, worn out franchise.

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Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning:

Matt once made a very nice play in Seattle where he spun away from a pass rusher and hit Bowe off his back foot for a first down.

Wow, I guess now that I think of it people with taste have always been fewer in number than trailer park slack jaws who think a bunch of explosions and shiny lights are the ultimate in movie making.

Coming from an unabashed nerd who was raised on TNG and grew to like DS9 on my own, the Abrams reboot was needed because it stepped away from the 40 years of "canon" backstory and focused on the relationships between it's main characters, which as much as it might not fit exactly with what TOS did, in essence it mimicked half of what made the original series good in the Kirk/Spock/McCoy dynamic.

Yes, it's hard to copy what made TOS good considering it was the heyday of good SciFi in that it made you think and question things, but if you ignore that aspect and feel that StarTrek is fundamentally about "fun" and "adventures" then the newest movie did just that.

Coming from an unabashed nerd who was raised on TNG and grew to like DS9 on my own, the Abrams reboot was needed because it stepped away from the 40 years of "canon" backstory and focused on the relationships between it's main characters, which as much as it might not fit exactly with what TOS did, in essence it mimicked half of what made the original series good in the Kirk/Spock/McCoy dynamic.

Yes, it's hard to copy what made TOS good considering it was the heyday of good SciFi in that it made you think and question things, but if you ignore that aspect and feel that StarTrek is fundamentally about "fun" and "adventures" then the newest movie did just that.

At least that's how I feel.

Well said and exactly how I feel. The Kirk/Spock/McCoy dynamic has always been one of the best things about Trek

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Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning:

Matt once made a very nice play in Seattle where he spun away from a pass rusher and hit Bowe off his back foot for a first down.